“The Republican Party used to have a label for the kind of foreign policy hawk that President-elect Donald Trump named on Tuesday as his national security adviser and is considering as his secretary of state: neocons,” the New York Times reports.
“But while they once were neoconservatives, over the past few years Representative Michael Waltz and Senator Marco Rubio, both of Florida, have gradually shifted their positions. Sounding less like former Vice President Dick Cheney or John R. Bolton, who served as Mr. Trump’s third national security adviser, they no longer talk about foreign interventions or the prospects of regime change. Instead, they speak the language of the ‘America First’ movement, and fit more comfortably within Mr. Trump’s often erratic worldview, in which deal-making reigns over ideology.”
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